When a river's tributaries or settlements by the river are listed in 'orographic sequence', they are in order from the highest (nearest the source of the...

Orographic lift occurs when an air mass is forced from a low elevation to a higher elevation as it moves over rising terrain.: 162  As the air mass gains...

more intense, and of shorter duration, than stratiform precipitation. Orographic precipitation occurs when moist air is forced upwards over rising terrain...

When air masses move up and over mountains, the air cools, producing orographic precipitation (rain or snow). As the air descends on the leeward side...

Mechanisms of producing precipitation include convective, stratiform, and orographic rainfall. Convective processes involve strong vertical motions that can...

and wind on the coast. This moisture continues to flow eastward until orographic lift caused by the Coast Ranges, and the Cascade, Sierra Nevada, Columbia...

A very local storm above Snæfellsjökull (Iceland), showing clouds formed on the mountain by orographic lift...

usually higher in the hills and coastal slopes of the mountains because of orographic uplift. Summer days are usually rainless. Rarely, an incursion of moist...

rainfall, through the release of latent heat from the saturated soil. Orographic lift can cause a significant increase in the intensity of the convection...

inversely proportional to precipitation. This is directly caused by the orographic lift of humid air masses and is especially pronounced in islands marked...

this moisture moves into the El Paso area and places to the southwest, orographic lift from the mountains, combined with strong daytime heating, causes...

Himalayas into Western and Eastern sections, both ecologically and orographically – the pass at the head of the Kali Gandaki, the Kora La, is the lowest...

more of three possible lifting agents—cyclonic/frontal, convective, or orographic—causes air containing invisible water vapor to rise and cool to its dew...

or Foehn cloud is any cloud associated with a Föhn (Foehn), usually an orographic cloud, a mountain wave cloud, or a lenticular cloud. Föhn is a regional...

range receives a substantial amount of snowfall and precipitation due to orographic lift. The Sierra Nevada's irregular northern boundary stretches from the...

climatic zones can be separated, according to geographical situation and orographic conditions: The Mediterranean climate is characterised by warm/hot and...

vary from 50–500 cm (20–197 in), depending on whether mountains cause orographic precipitation. Frontal cyclones can be common in marine west coast regions...

Orographic fog over the Black Mountains...

significant rain and snowfall, especially on the western slopes due to orographic lift, with annual snow accumulations of up to 1,000 inches (2,500 cm)...

from the Cretaceous, folded in an anticline structure. Between these orographic systems there are plains covered with tertiary and quaternary layers of...

air is forced upwards regardless of wind direction. This process of orographic enhancement leads to higher precipitation than surrounding areas. In winter...

territory called Guaytara to 800 meters, from the viewpoint of Ipiales. The orographic Ipiales Township are part of Narino highlands, the Guaitara canyon, and...

Orographic lift of moist air coming off ocean produces clouds along the Santa Lucia Range, of the California Coast Ranges System - NOAA...

pascals, or about 32% of Earth's sea level pressure. Even so, high-altitude orographic clouds frequently drift over the Olympus Mons summit, and airborne Martian...

more of three possible lifting agents – convective, cyclonic/frontal, or orographic – cause a parcel of air containing invisible water vapor to rise and cool...

(integrated water vapor – IWV). In addition, IVT is more directly attributed to orographic precipitation, a key factor in the production of intense rainfall and...

influenced by the onshore flow from the Black Sea and is subject to the orographic effect of the nearby hills and mountains, resulting in significant rainfall...

events (thunderstorms) tend to produce shorter duration storm events than orographic precipitation. Duration, intensity, and frequency of rainfall events are...

for having the highest frequency of hail in Canada, which is caused by orographic lifting from the nearby Rocky Mountains, enhancing the updraft/downdraft...

of the eastern Idukki district receive more than 5,000 mm (197 in) of orographic precipitation: the highest in the state. In eastern Kerala, a drier tropical...